China Expected To Send Its First Woman Into Space This Weekend
By the end of this week, China may have already finished its first manned space docking and successfully sent its first woman into space.
Chinese Shares Decline As Optimism Over Spain Bailout Fades
Stock markets in China and Hong Kong declined Tuesday, following losses on the Wall Street overnight as the early optimism over the Spanish bailout plan faded.
WWDC 2012: Mac OS X 'Mountain Lion' Release Date Set For July; Apple Unveils New Features
At the 2012 Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, Apple announced that the next version of its OS X operating system for Macs, dubbed Mountain Lion, will be released in July. The company did not give out a specific date and time.
China May Data Wrap: A Mixed Bag Of Results Calls For More Stimulus
China's May data dump over the weekend and on Monday painted a mixed picture of the economic health of the world's second-largest economy.
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India Could Be 1st BRIC To Lose Investment Grade: S&P
Standard & Poor's said on Monday that India could become the first of the so-called BRIC economies to lose its investment-grade status, sending the rupee and stocks lower, less than two months after cutting its rating outlook for the country.
US Stock Futures Point To Higher Opening Monday
Futures on major U.S. indices point to a higher opening Monday following the agreement by the eurozone finance ministers to lend Spain 100 billion euros ($125 billion).
Asian Markets Rise On Spain Bank Bailout, China Data
Asian markets rose Monday as investors were encouraged by the announcement of the Spanish bank aid deal and a report of less worrisome data from China over the weekend.
Crude Oil Futures Rally On Spanish Bank Aid Deal, Iran
Crude oil futures rallied Monday as market participants welcomed Europe's plan to provide financial assistance to Spain to properly restructure its troubled banks.
Chinese Shares Surge On Spain Aid Deal
Stock markets in China and Hong Kong gained Monday as sentiment was buoyed on news that the euro zone will provide financial assistance to help Spain's troubled banks.
Nikkei Rises Amid Spain Bailout Agreement And China Data
Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average rose Monday as euro zone finance ministers Saturday agreed to provide Spain with aid while May exports in China grew above expectations.
China's Data On Trade In May A Surprise: Not A Bad One But A Good One
Many analysts anticipated China's balance-of-trade figures for May would be OK, but the customs numbers reported Sunday were better than that expectation: Year on year, the country's exports rose 15.3 percent, and its imports rose 12.1 percent.
China Set To Launch Spacecraft This Month For Manned Space Docking
China is preparing to launch a manned space flight to an orbiting space laboratory in the middle of this month, according to state media reports and China's human spaceflight agency.
Syria: Scores Of Civilians Die In Saturday Massacre
Pro-regime forces were held responsible once again for killing dozens of civilians, including women and children, across Syria in an attack Saturday, a human rights watchdog group reported.
North Korea Says No Plan For Nuclear Test 'At Present'
North Korea said Saturday it had no plans to conduct a third nuclear test, but lashed out at South for trying to rattle its nerves.
Poor, Desperate, And Black: Illegal African 'Intruders' Stoke Anti-Immigrant Attitudes In Israel
Israel received about 4,600 asylum applications from Africans last year, according to the U.S. State Department. About 3,700 were rejected, while only one was approved. The others are pending.
Rupee Posts First Weekly Gain in 2 Months
The rupee weakened on Friday on worsening global risk sentiment, but posted its first weekly gain against the dollar in more than two months as the local currency recovers from oversold conditions.
Asian Markets Likely To Maintain Gains Next Week
Asian stock markets reported their first weekly gains in six weeks amid hopes that major central banks, including the U.S. Federal Reserve, might act to tackle deteriorating global economic conditions.
Weekly Roundup: Most Asian Markets Rise On Hopes For Stimulus Measures
Asian markets rose this week amid hopes that policy makers would take concrete measures to tackle the financial crisis and regain the economic growth momentum.
China's May CPI Rises At Slowest Pace In 2 Years; PPI Fell More Than Expected
China's inflation cooled in May, giving Beijing more wiggle room to loosen policy and stimulate growth. Its consumer price index rose by 3 percent, and its producer price index fell by 1.4 percent.
The Dragon's Hunger For The Elephant: How China Is Driving International Growth In Illegal Ivory Dealing
African governments -- and international animal-rights organizations -- contend the Chinese luxury consumer's appetite for ivory is driving a new wave of illegal killing of one of their continent's most iconic animals.
Opel Praying For 600% Sales Increase In China
Adam Opel GmbH, an aging European subsidiary of the General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM), is hoping Chinese sales will be a panacea for miserable performance in the European market.
Global Outlook: Broken China?
As we have long expected, China is beginning to decelerate.
US Trade Gap Shrinks In April, But Deficit With China Worsens
Lower U.S. demand for crude oil and petroleum products in April helped shrink the nation's balance-of-trade deficit from the previous month, the Commerce Department said Friday, but the trade deficit with China worsened.
US Trade Deficit Improves In April: Commerce Dept.
Lower U.S. demand for crude oil and petroleum products in April helped shrink the nation's balance-of-trade deficit from the previous month, the Commerce Department said Friday, but the trade deficit with China worsened.
Apple?s Worldwide Developers Conference: New Product Highlights
Thousands of software and application engineers have already sold out next week?s developers conference mounted by Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company. Here are four key highlights.
Are We Moving Towards Coordinated Central Bank Easing?
Without a stronger effort by the central banks -- in the form of a coordinated quantitative easing measure to correct the ailing European banking system -- the global economy (at best) will only limb along.
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